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Hello,

After about two month on hiatus due to my Africa tour and other projects, the newsletter is back ! No music reviews will be included this time but plenty, in the next one !

Database
As you will see at the bottom of the newsletter, 76 artists, labels and venues have been added to the database that now includes more than 2700 references and and and... I still have a huge amount of artists to add, especially from Iran, China, Indonesia.
 

New release
C-drík - Traffic jam, new noise track published this month - I often play noise live but rarely record any noise music, so here it is, free download or pay as you wish, available on Bandcamp.. And don't forget our latest compilations Uchronia - 49 artists and bands from 32 Asian countries and the diaspora (3CD and digital) and Pekak! Indonesian Noise 1995​-​2015. 20 Years Of Experimental Music From Indonesia (DVD-ROM and digital).
 

Future release
After touring two months in North, East and South Africa, I'm currently compiling many tracks in order to publish a new compilation around spring. The first African compilation I published was 30.2, in 2012. The CD included artists from Egypt, Angola, Réunion, Madagascar, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritius and Tunisia. The forthcoming compilation will include more artists from more countries (expect also Kenya, Uganda, eSwatini, Namibia, Senegal and more !). It will include a lot of women too, unlike the first volume that didn't include any, due to the difficulty to find them back then. Meanwhile you can listen and download for free or pay as you wish 30.2 here.
 

Next concerts, talks, radio shows
My next two radio shows on Colaboradio/88vier will be dedicated to African electronic and experimental music (22 January, 26 February), as usual on line and on air, I will do my best to archive them on Mixcloud, something I don't do enough ! For the first show, expect to hear some electronica, singeli, gqom, dub, minimal electronic, electronic funaná, afro-pop, electro mayola, hip hop and more ! Never heard about half of those genres ? One more reason to stay tuned !
And I joined Staalplaat Radio again and am back on Boxout.fm as well.

I will have several concerts in Belgium and Berlin this month, including at CTM Festival on the 31st, together with noise artists Rambo (PH), Sodadosa (ID), Nguyễn Hong Giang (VN), Andreas Siagian & Lintang Radittya + Peter Kirn (ID/DE) and will have a short tour in spring (Czechia at Audiotrauma Festival, Istanbul, Singapore, and various cities in Vietnam, including Dao Xuan Festival in Gam Troy Valley), some more details about those events here.

Speak soon !

cdrk
Calls
International Coproduction Fund Goethe-Institut (deadline 15 April 2019)
The Goethe-Institut’s Culture Department is responsible for administering the International Coproduction Fund. The employees of the music and theatre/dance departments carefully examine all the applications received both on their formal criteria, as well as on their compliance with the objectives or award criteria of the International Coproduction Fund. Then, after the end of the application period, the applications that have been accepted will be submitted to an independent expert committee. The five-member jury consists of alternating representatives of the advisory boards of the Goethe-Institut, international experts and a representative of the Goethe-Institut abroad. More info.
Africa Open Institute Sonic Residency - Call for applications (deadline : 21 January)
The Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation (AOI), at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, is pleased to announce the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, for two National and two International Sonic Residencies (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), taking place in 2019/2020.
AOI accepts submissions from emerging and mid-career creative professionals who are either formally trained in their respective discipline or self-taught. National Sonic Residencies are open to applicants who live in South Africa; International Sonic Residencies are open to applicants from other countries on the African continent, and who reside in Africa for minimally six months of the year. Read more on Facebook.
NYU Shanghai - Postdoctoral position
One postdoctoral position is available at the Music X Lab in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University, Shanghai Canpus, China.
The project is haptic guidance for flute tutoring, which aims to develop a novel haptic approach to help people learn flute (instruments in general) much more efficient than traditional methods. It includes 3D modelling, mechanical enginering, user study design, and computer music algorithm design for instrument tutoring. Read more here.
Kooshk Residency (various deadlines)
Open Call For Iranian Artists I Chongqing (China)
Open Call For Iranian Artists I Beijing (China)
Open Call For Iranian Artists | Space118 (India)
KARA 2019 | Tehran (Iran)
Open call for Iranian artists, Artist Exchange Program between Iran and 9 European countries in partnership.
All information and deadlines here.
Articles & interviews
Hardcore sounds from Tehran
Tom Faber meets the artists behind SET, a festival championing electronic music in the capital of Iran.
You can't go far on the tangled motorways of Tehran without getting stuck in traffic. It was late July and I was weary from another day of suffocating, 40-degree heat, but as we entered another gridlock, Ata Ebtekar was in a characteristically good mood. A car with two young men pulled up beside us, blasting out Persian hip-hop. Ebtekar turned to look at them, and couldn't resist analysing the acoustics of their vehicle which was rattling ominously. "That's an extremely sustained bass sound," he chuckled. The traffic lights changed and we left them behind, sailing towards a horizon of mountains and construction sites, the sunset turning the blue sky gold. Full article here.
Hanoi New Music Festival Concert 2018 – When music is not only for the ears
Liên hoan Nhạc mới Hà Nội 2018 – Khi âm nhạc không chỉ cho đôi tai
After 5 years, Hanoi New Music Festival Concert 2018 made its comeback with the theme “Make a Silence” from 16 to 21 December 2018.  Inspired by the impossibility of absolute silence, this music event series was a journey to find Southeast Asia’s own style, a region considered “silent” in the discourse of contemporary music on the world’s art map.
Words, photos and videos by Nguyễn Đức Tùng for Hanoi Grapevine. Full article here, English and Tiếng Việt.
Events this month and beyond
  • 05 January, Lucena City, the Philippines at Espasyo : Noisebath PH, with Lush Death, Sonderkommando, Trobol Kontrol, Sigalot, Egne, Washing Machine Sound System, A73376, Shinrikyö, Deathomega, KBHD, and more.
  • 05 January, Huế, Vietnam at The Studio : Siedl/Cao. Info
  • 05 January, Beijing, China at Studio H : 密集音乐会 59 miji concert 59, with 奥拉夫·豪赫兹，VAVABOND，朱文博 | olaf hochherz, VAVABOND, zhu wenbo. Info
  • 05 January, Hong Kong at HKICC : 空中集氣 Intersection in midair - Concert 聲音演出, with 陳濬人 Adonian Chan ( 結他 | Guitar ), ASJ (電子 | Electronics), 錢璟 Chin King (古箏｜Guzheng), 鈴木英倫子 Suzuki Elico (預置鋼琴,現成物 | Prepared Piano, Objects), 李穎姍 Fiona Lee (電子,聲音物件｜Electronics, Sound Objects), 馮俊彥 Jasper Fung (擴音機, 電子｜ Loudspeakers, Electronics), 余林橞 Karen Yu (敲擊,自製樂器｜Percussion, Self-made instruments), 上野健 Ken Ueno (人聲｜Voice), Shane Aspegren (鼓,電子｜ Drumset & Electronics), 大城真 Makoto Oshiro (自製電子樂器 | Self-made Electronics instruments), 許敖山 Steve Ɲerve （電子 | Electronics) . Facebook
  • 06 January, Huế, Vietnam at The Studio : Siedl/Cao (sound installation). Info
  • 08 January, Cairo, Egypt at Cairo Jazz Club : Youssef Abouzeid, Bashar Suleiman. Facebook
  • 10 January, Hong Kong at SAAL : Noise Processor, with Yoshihiro Kikuchi (JP), Sin;NED (HK), Sherman (HK). Facebook
  • 12 January, Liège, Belgium at Les Brasseurs : opening of Dock / Ancien Palais de Justice, concerts with Elsa M'bala, Paul Devens, Cedrik Fermont. 5.1 sound installations by Anne Wellmer (DE/NL), Cedrik Fermont (CG/BE/DE), Christian Galarreta (PE/FR), Cilia Erens (NL), Elise 't Hart (NL), Elsa M'Bala (CM/DE), Eran Sachs (IL), Erdem Helvacioǧlu (TR/US), France Jobin (CA), Jett Ilagan (PH), Justin Bennett (GB/NL), Kamran Sadhegi (IR/US), Leonie Roessler (DE/NL/US), Lloyd Dunn (CZ/US), Mike Kramer (NL), Raul Keller (EE), Robert Curgenven (AU/IE), Simon Weins (DE/GB), Stelios Manousakis (GR/NL), Soheil Soheili (IR), Zeno van den Broek (NL/DK) (exhibition between 16 Jan. & 7 February, check all info here) Facebook
  • 18 January, Taipei, Taiwan at Revolver : SuperHard超激硬#02, with 喜安亮介 Ryosuke Kiyasu (JP), (Z)erpent (US), Joseph Mauro (US), LTY (TW), Siao Chi & Min Ju (TW). Facebook
  • 20 January, Berlin, Germany, C-drík, Wissam Sader, and Martyna Poznańska at Hibiki, Berlin, Germany. Facebook
  • 23 January Berlin, Germany, C-drík, and more, Berlin, Germany. Info soon.
  • 24 - 26 January, Beirut, Lebanon at Al Madina Theatre : Night | لَيْل, dance performance by Ali Chahrour, music by Sharif Sehnaoui, Simona Abdallah and Aya Metwalli. Facebook
  • 25 January - 03 February, Berlin, Germany (various venues) : CTM Festival, 20th edition. The festival will include artists from a lot of countries around the world, including Iran, Indonesia, Ghana, Tunisia, China, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, and many more in the field of electronic, experimental and noise, music, from "dance" to extreme experimentation and things in between. Full programme here.
Added to the database
Cape Verde China China/Kazakhstan
  • IZ Bandcamp [post-industrial, post-folk]
Côte d'Ivoire
  • Nostalgie de la boue Bandcamp [industrial, electronic, electroacoustic, experimental, drone, etc.]
Egypt eSwatini Georgia Hong Kong India
  • Ambient music in India Facebook [group dedicated to ambient music]
Indonesia
  • Nusasonic Goethe Institut [international festival for electronic, noise, experimental, etc.]
  • Siasat Partikelir Site [magazine about music, art, technology, films, and more]
  • Synthesia.id Blogspot Facebook [database project about the synth culture in Indonesia]
International
  • AFAC - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Site Facebook [Funds individuals and organizations in the fields of cinema, performing arts, literature, music and visual arts][2007]
  • Mkito Site Facebook [East Africa and Southern Africa music network and community, mainly mainstream music but not only]
Iran Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Space21 Site Facebook [festival/performances/exhibitions for electroacoustic, sound art and experimental music in Iraqi Kurdistan][2018]
Kenya Lebanon Mozambique Namibia Namibia/South Africa
  • PUNGWELISTENING Soundcloud [sound art, Namibia/South Africa]
Nepal
  • Kaalo.101 Site Facebook [contemporary art, music, performance, etc.]
Nigeria/Palestine/USA
  • Asmaijah (Elijah Jamal Asani & Asma Ghanem) Soundcloud Facebook [electronic, experimental, Palestine/Nigeria/USA]
South Africa South Korea Taiwan Tunisia
  • Hazgui, Rehab Youtube Twitter [electronic]
  • El Fabrika Facebook Twitter [platform for experimental arts, alternative design, research and activism]
Turkey Uganda Vietnam
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